Stuff.co.nz: Working remotely boosts business and lifestyle for Rebecca Morris

Rebecca Morris can achieve a lot in a single day. She can conduct a business mentoring session with a client in Melbourne, arrange a workshop in Wellington, coordinate diaries with her PA in Christchurch, and organise speakers for a conference in Auckland.

Most significantly, she can do it all without leaving home in Nelson. The availability of fast and reliable broadband in the town meant that, when Morris and her family left Auckland two and a half years for a new life in the South Island, her business Paradigm Shift could make the transition just as easily…